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Black Parenting Strengths and Strategies (BPSS)

  /    /  Black Parenting Strengths and Strategies (BPSS)

About

BPSS is an evidenced-based program that aims to promote cultural, social and behavioral health among African American families. The BPSS program has been developed to incorporate the most successful strategies used by parenting and child development specialists while drawing on the strengths, unique parental strategies and processes inherent in African American families (e.g., racial socialization).

BPSS programs are: BPSS Assist to Resist, BPSS Child, BPSS Family and BPSS Parent.

The Black Parenting Strengths and Strategies curriculum is a 12-session evidence-based intervention designed to address issues that are specific to Black Parents. The intervention seeks to promote positive and relevant parenting practices for fostering cultural, social and behavioral, health and academic success in African American children.

The goals of BPSS

STRENGTHEN parenting skills

IMPROVE parental involvement

EMPOWER parents to advocate and access

GUIDE parents in preparing African American children for success.

So we can

INCREASE positive behaviors in children

DEVELOP self-image and self-esteem

BUILD their confidence in school

PROMOTE positive racial discussions

ENHANCE problem-solving skills

Products

  • Black Parenting Strengths and Strategies (BPSS-Short version): Curriculum and Leaders Manual
  • Black Parenting Strengths and Strategies – Child (BPSS-C short version): Curriculum and Leaders Manual
  • Black Parenting Strengths and Strategies (BPSS) Program: Curriculum and Leaders Manual
  • Black Parenting Strengths and Strategies – Child (BPSS-C): Curriculum and Leaders Manual
  • Black Parenting Strengths and Strategies – Special Topic I: Assist-To-Resist: Drug and Substance Use Prevention for Young Children
  • Black Parenting Strengths and Strategies – Forward-thinking Fathers (BPSS-FF): Curriculum Draft

Collaborators and Funders

  • National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH)
  • National Institute for Child Health and Development (NICHD)
  • The University of North Carolina Greensboro
  • Duke Transdisciplinary Prevention Research Center
  • Robertson Scholars Program
  • Duke/UNC Collaboration Fund
  • NYU Child Study Center

Related Research

  • Coard, S.I., Foy-Watson, S., Zimmer, C., & Wallace, A. (2007).  Considering culturally relevant parenting practices in intervention development and adaptation: A randomized control trial of the Black Parenting Strengths and Strategies (BPSS) Program. The Counseling Psychologist 35 (6), 797-820.
  • Coard, S.I., Wallace, S., Stevenson, H. & Miller Brotman, L. (2004). Towards culturally competent preventive interventions: The consideration of racial socialization in parent training with African American families. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 13 (3), 277-29

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